The Dems' Debate

Everyone was boring except for Al Sharpton. He made the best point that I disagreed with and got slaughtered by Peter Jennings.

On the gay marriage issue, all of the candidates were spelling out their various methods of rendering it a non-issue. Most said that they approved of civil unions but thought it should be left up to individual states to decide. Al Sharpton really stood by his guns and said that he was very uncomfortable leaving the rights Americans up to the states to decide. He was correct. I disagree with him about gay marriage being a right, but if that is what you do believe, then it should be the same for all Americans.

But all was not smooth for Old Al. Peter Jennings burned him with a snarky little question. He asked what qualities he would look for and who he would pick as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Al knows nothing about the Federal Reserve and it was a fair question, but it seemed snarky of Jennings because it was out of left field - particularly for someone like Al Sharpton.

The Death of Howard Dean. Cause: self-inflicted brain hemorrhage brought on by accute disappointment

Howard Dean's rant was awesome. I saw it live and was most impressed. I had been operating under the delusion that it was not really possible for a politician to become psychotic with disappointment. I really thought they were too jaded. Apparantly not. I sat slack-jawed and watched Howard Dean and his snarky little nerdlings go collectively nuts. Tom Harkin looked like a harmless lunatic who was accidentally placed in a home for the criminally insane. Dean looked bad. Really bad. What made it worse (if anything could have) were the folks behind him. They weren't his little snot-nosed brat supporters who might have deflected some of the attention. No. They were his respectable, Washington-insider endorsers and wealthy, dignified, monetary contributors. Tom Harkin, trying and failing to look enthusiastic, put it over the top for me. I woke up my husband who was very sick with the strep. "Hon. Hon. HON!! Howard Dean has lost his mind!!! On LIVE TV!!!!" My husband grunted what I think was "Go Kucinich" before passing out from the fever. Very happy I witnessed that little piece of history.